Man, why didn't they have these when I was a kid?! Yeah.. wish they had. I remember the coolest thing about Legos (when I still played with them/had some) was the lego kits where you could make things like cars and helicoptors and connect a little motor to them to make them work...
...if Compaq wants to self-destruct that's fine, but they're even worse... than I thought if they try to drag others down with them. I care because:
I have a Compaq Presario notebook.
It sucks.
If Compaq sucks this bad, that means they don't know what they're doing (already obvious, I realize), therefore, if they don't know what they're doing, how much less do they know what eMachines, and/or any other company is doing! (esp. to be suing someone.. those morons)
One must wonder (I know a lot do) how the heck they think they were infringed upon...
it is probably 25% of new sales, not 25% of installed base... yet. Of course... that is, until all those bought copies get copied and passed around and installed, and then, the whole of Japan (& the Pacific Rim) will be using Linux!
I know that I've not got a domain/won't be spammed/etc.. because of the "release" of the information, but
As someone earlier mentioned, the article said that NSI was "warned" to release the information.
Isn't the jist of this info that everybody's panicking about already released on whois's on domains?
Is there a point to releasing this information to competitors? How can releasing information about domains that are already sold help competitors to sell domains? Are they going to try to contact the people who bought the domains and ask them to "buy" them from themselves, as opposed to NSI? ("We'll be good, we promise!")
Otherwise, I'm not quite understanding the dealio with this. Sorry.
this looks like a carbon copy of alot of other sites. It definitely looks like they were going for the sheek look.... trying to ease in some style to play up the idea that they're "Serving the Linux and Open Source Communities."
Oh, and, lest we forget, they're "the definitive online destination for the open source community."
Oh, we're not full of ourselves, are we? Nah...I will admit, change can be good, but I think if I were them, I wouldn't have put some of those lines in there like they did, and I wouldn't have made the font so small, and I wouldn't have...
I thought these "What is Linux" articles and interviews were starting to get out of fashion again already... They are, IMHO. The article doesn't really say anything new, does it? Exactly. It's pointless. It simply restates what the Linux community, and the world in general, already knew. But it's not even restating that much. It's just another one of those aren't-we-cool-because-we're-interviewing-someone- big-from-the-Linux-community interviews. The kind of thing that's more to attract people who don't know squat about Linux but have heard the name and want to feel like they're keeping on top of things by reading this interview.
ah yes, or the . ..you posted this one last week Yeah, those and the "if you're a devoted fan of [insert company, "geek" celebrity, etc.] you would have seen this already" and/or "/.'s so slow.. " blah, blah, blah
Also, this seems inevitable when some new software is released, or in response to the d.net cracking situation: "I tried to tell them already, but they didn't want [my input]/[to give me credit]/[to add another name to their credits list]".. the been-there-done-that attitude.
*mindless rant* he'd rather use that still twitching body to examine the electrical processes in his body/mind. or, perhaps he'd use him for a test of uploading a brain.. an activity which, I believe, cannot be done. How would one possible transfer a mind? There are no ports in the brain that are compatible with the hardware that I've heard of in my life..
At one time, holding many patents lended respect and credibility, now because USPTO will approve nearly anything, it is seen as meaningless or worse by the very people one would want to impress.
True,.. so true.
For instance, someone who posted earlier mentioned the scene on the back of a mouse when one sees all the patents and patents pending on those things. You'd think that by now, a good deal of the basic qualities of a mouse are generic/already patented. Except for those new ergonomic devices that seem to become more and more healthy for your hands... (and I wonder about that sometimes..)
by now, I'm thinking that patenting something isn't going to prevent someone else from creating the same, or close clone, "thing" as you have... because they can just modify your idea, develop theirs seperately and with a different name,... etc.. and no one's the worse for it. It's actually nice, b/c then people/companies are developing similar technologies, which they must continue to improve to beat the competition, while making it cheaper so that people will buy it. Which is what's been happening throughout the history of economy anyway.
As for myself, I rather like the inclusive definition of doing something clever.
I agree. I couldn't sit here and say I'm a hacker, that's for sure, but I'd like to think that hacking extends far beyond the world of programming. There are billions of things in this world that can be hacked, taken over, changed, and dominate, only for the same thing to be done the next moment.
Always nice to have the big names like IBM contributing to the open source projects, too. I think it's great that IBM's doing this sort of thing. Now if only people like Apple or somebody could start dishing out the $..
This is a clear example of MS's attitude that every computer in the world should be running *only* MS software.
and it seems to not only be M$s idea.. but a vast majority (I think) of computer makers, as they make Windows standard, and usually don't offer options on the OS.. tsk-tsk
I wonder if there will ever be a limit as to how tall a roller coaster will be made, and as to how fast they'll make the drops (or simply, if they'll begin to designate maximum speeds for the rides).
Now picture this, imagine if you could have n glasses and each would show diferent parts of the screen.
Personally, I'd find it rather tedious and annoying to have to wear all the glasses at once so I could see the entire screen, because I wouldn't want to have to constantly switch glasses to look at different parts of my screen.
However, I think it's an ok idea, but if it can be done by oneself, I certainly would instead of buying that gizmo for all that money. It's a major rip-off. I have an LCD screen on my laptop, but I don't worry about it, or about what people might see. If it's that big of an issue, do it on paper so you can destroy the evidence. =)
I don't live in Australia, but I have this thing that competition is good, and I like it. I mean, who wants one big moron controlling everything?
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Why, might I ask, would the folks working on perl want to start numbering their releases the same way kernels (and lots of other software product releases are numbered?
That's standardization, something which I think the spirit of Linux,/., open source, FSF, etc... don't encompass. Who wants to be like everybody else? Not me!
Current law states that each citizen of the United States must be reachable by a mailbox.
And don't we love it when these government assigned addresses save lives (in the case of my father's heart attack when the paramedic team came to the rescue).
plus, I do enjoy my share of real mail, and everything I've ordered from the net thus far has been sent by USPS.
But I seriously doubt that snail mail and the USPS are going to become obselete any time soon. It's just not going to happen. (then again, if it did, I'd feel pretty dumb.)
...I've heard that at his gigs, he goes on stage with just a Mac laptop and produces real-time stuff...
If so,.. that's pretty amazing. How exactly does/would he do it? I've not used Max/jMax (I'm downloading jMax now, of course), but I was just wondering how someone could write/play music like that..... cool..
if I had an Apple.. or one of those bright little iBooks. But seeing as how I don't, and I'm assuming that, it being on Apple's site and all, it works with Apples only. Therefore, I'm wondering, when will the rest of us get one?
First of all, I'd like to mention that, doesn't it say "Shaheen writes....".. so don't try to blame it on Rob.
Secondly, it says that homes that have an Inter net connection watch an average of %13 (about an hour) less television than other homes each day. It's not saying that "wired" families watch an hour of TV... just an hour less.
Also, note that it's saying an average...I don't think anyone took that into account when trying to establish the amount of time families/homes without Internet connections watched TV.
I'm just thinking that you all should just drop it, and stop being so darn doofy about it. Who knows, you're probably all wrong.
I've noticed time and again that a lot of people out there don't know how to do anything, and they're afraid to (or too lazy to) find out how to do anything, and so they're absolutely confounded when someone uses their brain to do something. I certainly don't consider that child a genius, but I can understand how many people would, because they can't fathom what it must feel like to exercise their minds....stretch out and learn by _doing_
Well, from the web page...... it looked interesting. Wish I coulda gone. But hey, there are other times, and other places, as opposed to Australia, which is long ago and far, far away...
Not only would it be cool, it _is_ cool. Our universe is a subatomic particle for other universes, and our subatomic particles are universes in themselves. For there is infinitely enormous matter as we know it, and there is infintessimally minute matter...... therefore, it is no theory, it is a reality. We just have problems seeing it and comprehending it, because of it's grand scale.
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then what about just getting a flat panel tv screen of that (or larger) size?
Man, why didn't they have these when I was a kid?!
Yeah.. wish they had. I remember the coolest thing about Legos (when I still played with them/had some) was the lego kits where you could make things like cars and helicoptors and connect a little motor to them to make them work...
I care because:
In conclusion.. I hate my computer!
it is probably 25% of new sales, not 25% of installed base... yet.
Of course... that is, until all those bought copies get copied and passed around and installed, and then, the whole of Japan (& the Pacific Rim) will be using Linux!
Woo Hoo!
Otherwise, I'm not quite understanding the dealio with this. Sorry.
this looks like a carbon copy of alot of other sites.
It definitely looks like they were going for the sheek look.... trying to ease in some style to play up the idea that they're "Serving the Linux and Open Source Communities."
Oh, and, lest we forget, they're "the definitive online destination for the open source community."
Oh, we're not full of ourselves, are we? Nah...I will admit, change can be good, but I think if I were them, I wouldn't have put some of those lines in there like they did, and I wouldn't have made the font so small, and I wouldn't have...
If I had all that equipment, I think I'd use it (and the software) to make a cool 3D show.
But that's just me.
I thought these "What is Linux" articles and interviews were starting to get out of fashion again already...- big-from-the-Linux-community interviews. The kind of thing that's more to attract people who don't know squat about Linux but have heard the name and want to feel like they're keeping on top of things by reading this interview.
They are, IMHO. The article doesn't really say anything new, does it?
Exactly. It's pointless. It simply restates what the Linux community, and the world in general, already knew. But it's not even restating that much. It's just another one of those aren't-we-cool-because-we're-interviewing-someone
ah yes, or the . . .you posted this one last week
Yeah, those and the "if you're a devoted fan of [insert company, "geek" celebrity, etc.] you would have seen this already" and/or "/.'s so slow.. " blah, blah, blah
Also, this seems inevitable when some new software is released, or in response to the d.net cracking situation:
"I tried to tell them already, but they didn't want [my input]/[to give me credit]/[to add another name to their credits list]".. the been-there-done-that attitude.
*mindless rant*
he'd rather use that still twitching body to examine the electrical processes in his body/mind. or, perhaps he'd use him for a test of uploading a brain.. an activity which, I believe, cannot be done. How would one possible transfer a mind? There are no ports in the brain that are compatible with the hardware that I've heard of in my life..
*end mindless rant*
At one time, holding many patents lended respect and credibility, now because USPTO will approve nearly anything, it is seen as meaningless or worse by the very people one would want to impress.
... etc.. and no one's the worse for it. It's actually nice, b/c then people/companies are developing similar technologies, which they must continue to improve to beat the competition, while making it cheaper so that people will buy it. Which is what's been happening throughout the history of economy anyway.
True,.. so true.
For instance, someone who posted earlier mentioned the scene on the back of a mouse when one sees all the patents and patents pending on those things. You'd think that by now, a good deal of the basic qualities of a mouse are generic/already patented.
Except for those new ergonomic devices that seem to become more and more healthy for your hands... (and I wonder about that sometimes..)
by now, I'm thinking that patenting something isn't going to prevent someone else from creating the same, or close clone, "thing" as you have... because they can just modify your idea, develop theirs seperately and with a different name,
As for myself, I rather like the inclusive definition of doing something clever.
I agree. I couldn't sit here and say I'm a hacker, that's for sure, but I'd like to think that hacking extends far beyond the world of programming. There are billions of things in this world that can be hacked, taken over, changed, and dominate, only for the same thing to be done the next moment.
Always nice to have the big names like IBM contributing to the open source projects, too.
I think it's great that IBM's doing this sort of thing. Now if only people like Apple or somebody could start dishing out the $..
This is a clear example of MS's attitude that every computer in the world should be running *only* MS software.
and it seems to not only be M$s idea.. but a vast majority (I think) of computer makers, as they make Windows standard, and usually don't offer options on the OS.. tsk-tsk
Cool... yeah roller coasters.
I wonder if there will ever be a limit as to how tall a roller coaster will be made, and as to how fast they'll make the drops (or simply, if they'll begin to designate maximum speeds for the rides).
Personally, I'd find it rather tedious and annoying to have to wear all the glasses at once so I could see the entire screen, because I wouldn't want to have to constantly switch glasses to look at different parts of my screen.
However, I think it's an ok idea, but if it can be done by oneself, I certainly would instead of buying that gizmo for all that money. It's a major rip-off. I have an LCD screen on my laptop, but I don't worry about it, or about what people might see. If it's that big of an issue, do it on paper so you can destroy the evidence. =)
Bring on the competition!!!!!
I don't live in Australia, but I have this thing that competition is good, and I like it. I mean, who wants one big moron controlling everything?
Why, might I ask, would the folks working on perl want to start numbering their releases the same way kernels (and lots of other software product releases are numbered?
/., open source, FSF, etc... don't encompass. Who wants to be like everybody else? Not me!
That's standardization, something which I think the spirit of Linux,
Current law states that each citizen of the United States must be reachable by a mailbox.
And don't we love it when these government assigned addresses save lives (in the case of my father's heart attack when the paramedic team came to the rescue).
plus, I do enjoy my share of real mail, and everything I've ordered from the net thus far has been sent by USPS.
But I seriously doubt that snail mail and the USPS are going to become obselete any time soon. It's just not going to happen. (then again, if it did, I'd feel pretty dumb.)
...I've heard that at his gigs, he goes on stage with just a Mac laptop and produces real-time stuff...
If so,.. that's pretty amazing. How exactly does/would he do it? I've not used Max/jMax (I'm downloading jMax now, of course), but I was just wondering how someone could write/play music like that..... cool..
if I had an Apple.. or one of those bright little iBooks. But seeing as how I don't, and I'm assuming that, it being on Apple's site and all, it works with Apples only. Therefore, I'm wondering, when will the rest of us get one?
First of all, I'd like to mention that, doesn't it say "Shaheen writes...." .. so don't try to blame it on Rob.
Secondly, it says that homes that have an Inter net connection watch an average of %13 (about an hour) less television than other homes each day.
It's not saying that "wired" families watch an hour of TV... just an hour less.
Also, note that it's saying an average...I don't think anyone took that into account when trying to establish the amount of time families/homes without Internet connections watched TV.
I'm just thinking that you all should just drop it, and stop being so darn doofy about it. Who knows, you're probably all wrong.
I've noticed time and again that a lot of people out there don't know how to do anything, and they're afraid to (or too lazy to) find out how to do anything, and so they're absolutely confounded when someone uses their brain to do something. I certainly don't consider that child a genius, but I can understand how many people would, because they can't fathom what it must feel like to exercise their minds....stretch out and learn by _doing_
Well, from the web page...... it looked interesting. Wish I coulda gone. But hey, there are other times, and other places, as opposed to Australia, which is long ago and far, far away...
Not only would it be cool, it _is_ cool. Our universe is a subatomic particle for other universes, and our subatomic particles are universes in themselves. For there is infinitely enormous matter as we know it, and there is infintessimally minute matter...... therefore, it is no theory, it is a reality. We just have problems seeing it and comprehending it, because of it's grand scale.